...However, now your nice little pistol is much harder to conceal.
Barrel length conceals easily: Just shove the longer barrel deeper into your pants.
But a long, or large, grip area is very hard to hide. Bend over a little, and it "prints."

Even in its pictured "stock" form, I think that the magazine base-plate sticks out too much.
But that's just me.
Your mileage, as they say, may vary.

When carrying around the waist area, your more apt to have someone touch or bump your side and notice that your carrying.
Basically so what, your legal.
Just for conversation , Your pocket is lower ,it's just not an area where the average joe looks for a sidearm.
People have cell phones, car keys,etc, all kinds of stuff in their pockets
Last place their gonna look for that AR15 is in your pocket,lol